Chapter Summaries

Ren Xiaoyao fought the Nine Li Demon Lord after the demon army erupted from the earth and laid waste to the land. He comprehended the power of World Creation, killed the Demon Lord, and burned away the remaining demons as the corrupted ground began to recover.

• The Nine Li Demon Lord revealed that the Seven Nights Demon Lord had been bait, then led an army of Nine Li Demons against Ren Xiaoyao.
• Ren Xiaoyao fought off the demons with the Divine Dragon Armor, Chaos Axe, and Phoenix Creation Feathers while the Nine Li Demon Lord and his generals attacked.
• The Nine Li Demon Lord transformed into a thousand-zhang Demonic God and struck at Ren Xiaoyao with a giant palm.
• Ren Xiaoyao absorbed spiritual energy, comprehended the Supreme Principles of Heaven and Earth, and cut the Nine Li Demon Lord in two with a World Creation blade.
• The remaining demons fled, but Ren Xiaoyao pursued them with dragon breath and Phoenix True Fire, purifying the battlefield and restoring life to the land.

Ren Xiaoyao fought the Nine Li Demon Lord after the Demon Lord revealed that his previous form had only been an avatar. As Ren Xiaoyao’s strength dwindled, he fused the power of the Divine Dragon Armor and Phoenix Creation Feathers for a final clash, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ren Xiaoyao, badly drained from the previous battle, saw the Nine Li Demon Lord’s true body emerge from a pillar of black light and summon an army of Demon Soldiers and Demon Generals.
• The Nine Li Demon Lord attacked Ren Xiaoyao with black chains, demonic lightning, and twisted landscapes, while Ren Xiaoyao defended himself with the Divine Dragon Armor and Chaos Axe.
• Ren Xiaoyao used Space-time Dance to trap the Demon Lord in a cage of space-time cracks, but the Demon Lord absorbed the cracks and counterattacked.
• As the battle wore him down, Ren Xiaoyao continued to resist the Demon Lord’s attacks, which grew more powerful and threatened to overwhelm the land.
• Ren Xiaoyao fused the Divine Dragon Armor and Phoenix Creation Feathers into a Nine-Colored Light and charged the Demon Lord, whose burning giant fist collided with Ren Xiaoyao’s attack in a cataclysmic energy storm.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated the Demon Venerable after surviving his betrayal, then entered the Chaos Land seeking a way to purify Demonic Qi and save the devastated world. The Chaos Land’s primordial power immediately assaulted his already injured body as rumbling sounded around him.

• Ren Xiaoyao unleashed the Chaos Axe against the Demon Venerable, breaking his protective shield and forcing him to his knees.
• Ren Xiaoyao hesitated over killing the Demon Venerable, but agreed to lead him toward the Chaos Land after the Demon Venerable offered to swear an oath and submit to mind control.
• The Demon Venerable broke free of Ren Xiaoyao’s secret technique inside the space-time vortex and bound him with Black Chains.
• Ren Xiaoyao burned away the chains, revealed that he had planted a Demon Slaying Seal, and killed the Demon Venerable with the Chaos Axe.
• Ren Xiaoyao entered the Chaos Land, where dense Chaos Qi tore through his wounds and damaged meridians as a rumbling echoed through the land.

Ren Xiaoyao endured the Yin-Yang Flying Zombie’s attacks, defeated it while refining the Yin-Yang Creation Pill, and followed the Chaos Land’s signs deeper inside. There he passed the Pangu Axe’s third trial, awakened the Space-time Laws, and opened tribulation-crossing passages linking countless Small Worlds.

• Ren Xiaoyao used his blood and the Chaos Axe to resist the Chaos Land’s corruption as the Yin-Yang Flying Zombie emerged and attacked him.
• Ren Xiaoyao fought the Flying Zombie with the Chaos Axe and his other treasures, then used the axe’s power to defeat it and refine the Yin-Yang Creation Pill.
• Ren Xiaoyao’s meridians healed with yin-yang patterns as he followed the Big Dipper and the path of Yin-Yang Fish patterns into the depths of the Chaos Land.
• Twelve divine generals welcomed Ren Xiaoyao as the Axe Master and guided him through the third trial of the Pangu Axe, where he endured successive Lightning Tribulations.
• Ren Xiaoyao merged the trial’s power into the Chaos Axe, awakened the Space-time Laws, and opened passages connecting countless Small Worlds.

Ren Xiaoyao fought the Demon Dragon with the Chaos Axe, combining the strength and memories of his past lives to defeat it and free the spirits it had devoured. After refining the Dragon Core, he restored fragments of the Three Thousand Realms, and Pangu revealed that the Sky-Opening Axe’s true meaning was rebirth.

• The Demon Dragon broke through a barrier and attacked Ren Xiaoyao, using chaos breath and space-time powers to threaten his Dao Heart.
• Ren Xiaoyao merged phantoms from his first three tribulations into an Axe Master phantom and struck the Demon Dragon with the World-Opening Technique.
• The Demon Dragon countered with ghostfire, space-time turbulence, and a bone flute, but Ren Xiaoyao’s axe broke through its defenses and wounded its reverse scale.
• Ren Xiaoyao’s final axe strike disintegrated the Demon Dragon and freed the remnant souls it had devoured.
• The Twelve Divine Generals refined the Dragon Core, and its Chaos Origin restored the Star Map and helped rebuild worlds and reincarnate liberated souls.
• Pangu’s echo told Ren Xiaoyao that the Sky-Opening Axe meant rebirth rather than destruction as its power began stitching devoured World Fragments back together.

Ren Xiaoyao faced the awakened Zao Wushen at Xuanyuan Mountain and defeated his Dao-destroying fist with the rebirth power of the Sky-Opening Origin. Zao Wushen recognized Ren Xiaoyao as the strongest, regained his youth, and rebuilt his Dao Foundation as Xuanyuan Mountain and Martial Dao across the continent were renewed.

• Ren Xiaoyao sensed the Mysterious Ice Tomb breaking open and learned that Zao Wushen had awakened after two thousand years of sleep.
• Zao Wushen challenged Ren Xiaoyao at Xuanyuan Platform, and the challenge spread across the continent.
• Zao Wushen attacked with Wushen Destroys Dao, but Ren Xiaoyao dissolved the punch with a miniature axe shadow formed from the Chaos Axe's Origin Light Flow.
• Ren Xiaoyao explained that his power was Dao Intent that let Dao be reborn, and Zao Wushen recognized the truth of Martial Dao and accepted Ren Xiaoyao as the strongest on the continent.
• Zao Wushen's old sword and accumulated Martial Dao transformed into a spiritual herb, while he sat down to rebuild his Dao Foundation and Xuanyuan Mountain renewed itself.

Ren Xiaoyao confronted the Creation Black Snake at the hidden Secret Realm Entrance and used the Chaos Axe and Twelve Star Wheels to defeat it and restore realms consumed by its power. He reached the complete Space-time Seal, opened a rift, and saw countless realms whose wounds were beginning to heal.

• Ren Xiaoyao discovered the Creation Black Snake guarding the Secret Realm Entrance and recognized that it devoured Realm Origin.
• The black snake attacked, and Ren Xiaoyao fought back with the Chaos Axe, the Twelve Star Wheels, and the power of his three reincarnations.
• Ren Xiaoyao trapped the snake in the Birth and Death Great Array and struck it with the axe, destroying it and releasing the devoured realms’ remnant souls.
• The Star Wheels brightened as realm histories and inheritance imprints returned, revealing signs of revival and a path toward the Realm Core.
• Ren Xiaoyao reached the complete Space-time Seal, joined it with the Star Wheels, and opened a rift into a vista of countless realms slowly healing.

Ren Xiaoyao battled the Gray-Robed Old Daoist in Tianyan Continent’s Realm Graveyard, where the Daoist weaponized remnant souls from destroyed realms. Ren Xiaoyao freed their hidden will and destroyed the altar, but the old Daoist warned that the true Grave Diggers would come for him.

• Ren Xiaoyao entered Tianyan Continent’s Realm Graveyard and confronted the Gray-Robed Old Daoist, who attacked him with swarms and curses made from realm remnant souls.
• The old Daoist revealed that his Realm-Destruction Curse was tied to Ren Xiaoyao’s Star Wheels and threatened to turn his Space-time Seal into a grave marker for the realms he failed to protect.
• Ren Xiaoyao used the Chaos Axe and Star Wheel radiance to break the old Daoist’s evil arts, awakening the remnant souls and revealing the Boundary Severing Hexagram and a map of Realm Rebirth.
• Ren Xiaoyao discovered through the old Daoist’s memories that the Grave Diggers had turned Tianyan Continent, once a hub for the Three Thousand Realms, into a graveyard around an altar containing a Space-time Seal.
• The old Daoist’s curse seal exploded, but Ren Xiaoyao turned its blood runes into a Star Map as nine stars shone at Canglan Realm’s position, signaling its possible rebirth.
• Ren Xiaoyao destroyed the black altar with the Chaos Axe, scattered the miasma, and saw the residual cores of the Three Thousand Realms shine with new life; the old Daoist warned that the true Grave Diggers would come for him.

Ren Xiaoyao entered Jade Marrow Valley, where Baiku tested him as the guardian of the Tianze Spirit Vein and he inherited the ancient Sword Cultivators’ legacy. After defeating Baiku and opening the Ancient Divine Court, he stepped inside to seek the final key to its secrets.

• Ren Xiaoyao’s sword intent resonated with the Tianze Spirit Vein, revealing ancient star maps and the history of Baiku’s guardianship.
• Baiku attacked Ren Xiaoyao with Annihilation powers, and Ren Xiaoyao countered with his sword techniques and the Southern Bright Li Fire Sword Art.
• Ren Xiaoyao overcame Baiku’s final assault, and Baiku passed its spiritual charm to him before dissolving into starlight.
• Ren Xiaoyao followed the starlight staircase to the sword platform, where the Mysterious Stele shattered and his Golden Core transformed into a Star Core.
• Ren Xiaoyao destroyed the remaining World Destroying Runes, awakened the Tianze Spirit Vein, and entered the opened Ancient Divine Court.

Ren Xiaoyao inherited the Sword Saint’s Dao and uncovered how the First Generation Sword Master and Baiku had sealed Tianyan Continent’s Spirit Veins. The seal became a covenant rather than a sacrifice, and Ren Xiaoyao gained the Heart-Guarding Sword Manual as Sword Mounds across the continent answered his new oath.

• Ren Xiaoyao met the Sword Saint in Jade Marrow Valley, where seventy-two phantom swords and memories of the ancient seal revealed links among his Star Core, Baiku, and the Sword Master inheritance.
• The Sword Saint tested Ren Xiaoyao with questions about protecting the Spirit Veins, sacrificing emotions, and facing the Power of Annihilation, and Ren Xiaoyao swore to bear the oath with his Jian Xin.
• Ren Xiaoyao and the Sword Saint joined the Green Mang Sword and the Wu Feng short blade’s Dao rhythms, awakening the Reverse-Orbit Runes and forming a new Spirit-Sealing Formation.
• Ren Xiaoyao received the memories of the First Generation Sword Master and Baiku creating the Annihilation-Creation seal, and the Sword Saint’s Wu Feng short blade entered Ren Xiaoyao’s Star Core.
• Baiku’s remnant soul emerged from the Mysterious Stele, gathered the Far North Ice Plains’ Spiritual Charm into the Myriad Swords Return to Origin sword manual, and the Sword Saint gave Ren Xiaoyao the Heart-Guarding Sword Manual.
• Sword Mounds across Tianyan Continent released their swords as the Mysterious Stele collapsed into a monument bearing the Sword Masters’ vows, while Ren Xiaoyao refined the seventy-two phantom swords into Sword Bones within his Star Core.

Ren Xiaoyao faced the Sword Demon at Demon Fall Cliff and defeated him with the Green Mang Sword’s protective sword intent. The Sword Demon’s death revealed the wounds and memories behind his fall, and Ren Xiaoyao carried his Sword Soul and regret forward as the valley began to heal.

• The Sword Demon challenged Ren Xiaoyao to a life-and-death duel and tormented him before their battle at Demon Fall Cliff.
• The Sword Demon attacked with his Greedy Wolf Demon Sword, while Ren Xiaoyao used the Green Mang Sword to reveal the Sword Demon's painful past and the grievances of his victims.
• Ren Xiaoyao’s sword intent of protection awakened the Green Mang Sword and cracked the Greedy Wolf Demon Sword, exposing the Sword Demon’s memories of his mother and his expulsion from the sect.
• Ren Xiaoyao struck the Greedy Wolf Demon Sword with a pure Sword Rainbow, dispersing the demonic qi and defeating the Sword Demon as his Sword Soul merged into Ren Xiaoyao’s Star Core.
• The freed remnant souls joined the Green Mang Sword’s Heart-Guarding Formation, and Ren Xiaoyao saw memories of the Sword Demon’s earlier life preserved as an amber tear on his sword tassel.
• The demonic qi faded, Worry-Dispelling Grass and flowering trees appeared, and Sword Masters from the Far North Ice Plains arrived at Demon Fall Cliff.

Ren Xiaoyao overcame the Heart Demon by confronting his and Sword Demon's painful memories and discovering the love and protection beneath their hatred. He learned the truth about his mother's supposed abandonment, freed Sword Demon's remnant soul, and left Demon Fall Cliff with a newly formed sword.

• The Heart Demon attacked Ren Xiaoyao with visions of his failures, old wounds, and the resentment of souls trapped by the Greedy Wolf Demon Sword.
• Ren Xiaoyao drew strength from his mother's lullaby and memories, breaking through the Heart Demon's illusions and freeing the resentful souls.
• Ren Xiaoyao realized his mother had carved the character for battle to mean protection, and Sword Demon's hatred began to dissolve.
• The Amber Tear revealed that Ren Xiaoyao's mother had entrusted him to a woodcutter before sealing the Greedy Wolf Demon Sword, and that others had silenced her and used him as bait.
• Ren Xiaoyao discovered his mother's protective Sword Talisman and saw her final moments through one of the fireflies released from the Heart Demon.
• The obsidian fragments formed a new sword, and Ren Xiaoyao left Demon Fall Cliff as its Sword Master.

Ren Xiaoyao faced Blood Shadow Old Monster, the Sword Demon's master, while struggling against demonic corruption left by the battle at Soul Severing Cliff. As Blood Shadow Old Monster unleashed a devastating palm strike, Ren Xiaoyao formed a previously unseen Lingchen Sword technique, and the fight remained unresolved.

• Ren Xiaoyao's victory over the Sword Demon spread across Tianyan Continent, while the martial world feared Blood Shadow Old Monster's retaliation.
• Ten days after the battle, Ren Xiaoyao meditated in a ruined Taihang Mountains temple as the Bone-Corroding Demonic Evil continued to damage his meridians.
• Blood Shadow Old Monster entered the temple, identified himself as the Sword Demon's master, and condemned Ren Xiaoyao for killing his disciple.
• Ren Xiaoyao challenged Blood Shadow Old Monster over the Sword Demon's massacres, and Blood Shadow Old Monster attacked him with Bone Corroding Claws.
• Ren Xiaoyao resisted Blood Shadow Old Monster's six claw-shadow attacks with the Lingchen Sword Art, despite his worsening internal injuries.
• Ren Xiaoyao unleashed Heavenly Light Breaks Delusion and awakened the Lingchen Sword's Myriad Ice Returns to Origin phenomenon, then formed the unprecedented Ice Fire Returns to Origin as Blood Shadow Old Monster's blood-colored palm descended.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated Blood Shadow Old Monster in the ruined temple and freed the souls of Shuofang City, but the monster’s remnant soul infected him with a Demonic Seed. With the aid of the white cranes and the Ice Lotus Imprint, Ren Xiaoyao purified the curse, strengthened Lingchen Sword, and learned that the remnant soul still watched him from the Far North Ice Plains.

• Ren Xiaoyao used Lingchen Sword and the Demon-Sweeping rune to break Blood Shadow Old Monster’s attacks and free the souls bound to his demonic art.
• Blood Shadow Old Monster threw his Demonic Core at Ren Xiaoyao, who destroyed it with an ice-and-fire Sword Vortex and released the souls of Shuofang City.
• Ren Xiaoyao saw that Blood Shadow Old Monster’s remnant soul had survived and planted a Demonic Seed inside his dantian, corrupting his shadow and Lingchen Sword.
• Thirteen white cranes brought Ice Lotuses to Shuofang City, helping Ren Xiaoyao burn away the curse and transform the vengeful souls’ obsessions into Guardian Power.
• Ren Xiaoyao fused the Demon-Sweeping rune with the curse script into an Evil-Suppressing rune, gained control of ice and fire, and strengthened Lingchen Sword with the freed souls.
• Ren Xiaoyao sensed Blood Shadow Old Monster’s remnant soul still watching from the Far North Ice Plains and resolved to use Lingchen Sword to guide vengeful souls to rest.

Ren Xiaoyao purified the Creation Snow Lotus and defeated the Blood Shadow Old Monster’s remnant soul, then awakened the Sword Mound and gained a new Creation Sword Realm. After learning that the true Demonic Source lay within the Sword Mound and sensing a larger calamity approaching, he set out toward the southern seas.

• Ren Xiaoyao entered the Creation Space, where he found the Snow Lotus, the Dao Foundation-devouring Creation Giant Flood Dragon, and the remnants of countless cultivators.
• Ren Xiaoyao used the Lingchen Sword and the Kindness Fire Seed from Shuofang City's wronged souls to defeat the Flood Dragon and purify the Snow Lotus, freeing thirteen ancient cultivators’ remnant souls.
• Ren Xiaoyao received the Creation Jade Lotus Seed and formed the Creation Sword Realm as the Creation Space collapsed and the purified souls raised thirteen Light Towers.
• The Blood Shadow Old Monster’s remnant soul corrupted the Peace light patterns above Shuofang City, but Ren Xiaoyao and the Light Tower spirits drove it away as a Sword Mound summons reached him.
• Ren Xiaoyao followed the Light Bridge to the Sword Mound, connected the Lingchen Sword to its Star Chart, and absorbed the Sword Intent of ancient swords.
• Ren Xiaoyao saw a greater demonic shadow and thirteen unlit stars in the Sword Mound Star Chart, then headed south toward the Return Ruins of the southern seas.

Ren Xiaoyao fought the Sky Swallowing Whale Dragon in the Guixu Vortex and discovered it was a demonic artifact made from the souls and Dao Foundations of countless sword cultivators, including his ancestor. After the creature collapsed, Ren Xiaoyao claimed a broken sword and learned that Ren Canghai had suffered a terrible fate; a shadowy island appeared on the horizon, leaving a greater danger ahead.

• Ren Xiaoyao faced the Whale Flood Dragon as its vortex, demonic attacks, and illusions weakened him and threatened to consume his soul.
• Ren Xiaoyao discovered that his ancestor had been refined into a living sacrifice within the Whale Flood Dragon, and the residents of Shuofang City's golden light failed to destroy the demonic formation.
• The Whale Flood Dragon collapsed, releasing the remnant souls of the cultivators it had absorbed, while its spine left a Whale Tooth Pattern on the Lingchen Sword.
• Ren Xiaoyao pulled a broken sword from a White Jade Sword Platform and saw a vision of the old fisherman with a black tentacle in his net.
• The crying faces on Ren Xiaoyao's sword spoke the name Ren Canghai, and he recognized it as his vanished ancestor.
• Ren Xiaoyao saw a shadowy island covered with broken swords appear beyond the blood-red dawn.

Ren Xiaoyao uncovered the truth of the Guixu War and joined the sword intent of countless fallen cultivators to defeat the Flood Demon Emperor and purify Return Ruins. With the souls freed and the Sword Dao restored, Ren Xiaoyao stepped onto a rainbow bridge toward Ren Canghai.

• Ren Xiaoyao resisted the Flood Demon Emperor’s attempt to corrupt his memories and Dao Heart, while Ren Canghai’s memories revealed the truth of the Guixu War.
• Ren Xiaoyao’s sword and the residual souls rewrote the Myriad Souls Sacrifice Diagram, broke the demonic locks, and restored sword techniques across Return Ruins.
• Ren Canghai’s Bronze Crown Fragment revealed that he had sacrificed his Dao Foundation to entangle his Sword Intent with that of the fallen cultivators.
• The Sword of Heavenly Dao formed from the linked Sword Intent of the Ren ancestors and countless residual souls, and its golden light purified the Flood Demon Emperor’s demonic energy.
• Ren Xiaoyao caught his mother’s Silver Bell as the freed souls completed the Myriad Swords Return to Guixu Art and purified Return Ruins.
• Ren Xiaoyao saw Ren Canghai on a Sword Dao Rainbow Bridge and stepped onto it with the Lingchen Sword.

Ren Xiaoyao returned from Guixu and accepted Blade Maniac’s challenge, then fought him at Broken Blade Cliff. Ren Xiaoyao destroyed Blade Maniac and his stolen sword inheritances with the combined sword intent of Guixu’s fallen cultivators.

• Ren Xiaoyao received Blade Maniac’s challenge to meet at Broken Blade Cliff and remembered the massacre of his family.
• Blade Maniac attacked Ren Xiaoyao at Broken Blade Cliff with his nine curved blades, summoning black dragon-shaped blade shadows.
• Ren Xiaoyao countered with sword intent drawn from the Guixu Sword Mound, and their clash cracked the cliff and exposed ancient runes beneath it.
• Blade Maniac wounded Ren Xiaoyao with a storm of blade shadows, but Ren Xiaoyao held his ground and cut a strand of his hair.
• Ren Xiaoyao unleashed the Lingchen Sword’s golden light and summoned the phantoms of Guixu’s Sword Cultivators.
• The golden light disintegrated Blade Maniac’s blades and destroyed his Demonic Qi, Primordial Spirit, and stolen sword inheritances.

Ren Xiaoyao defeated Blade Maniac by drawing on the Guixu Sword Mound’s ancient Sword Intent, avenging his family and the devoured Sword Cultivators. After peace returned to Tianyan Continent, he continued his journey and received the Flowing Cloud Sword Art at Duan Yun Cliff.

• Blade Maniac unleashed the power of Return Ruins Demonic Qi, while Ren Xiaoyao endured visions of his family’s slaughter and the suffering of Sword Cultivators.
• Ren Xiaoyao reversed Myriad Swords Returning to the Void and summoned a sword formation, but Blade Maniac’s demonic phantom and attacks threatened to overwhelm it.
• The broken sword sealed in the Guixu Sword Mound answered Ren Xiaoyao’s call, and its ancient Sword Intent poured into him.
• Ren Xiaoyao poured his Vital Blood into the Lingchen Sword and struck Blade Maniac with a final sword that destroyed the demonic phantom and released the spirits of the Sword Cultivators and Ren Family children.
• Ren Xiaoyao found a new sword embryo forming from the shattered Lingchen Sword and set out to continue protecting the Sword Dao and Tianyan Continent.
• At Duan Yun Cliff, a white-haired old man passed the Flowing Cloud Sword Art to Ren Xiaoyao, who sat down to comprehend it.

Ren Xiaoyao forged a bond with the Infinite Chaos Sword, shattered the Heavenly Tribulation, and faced an invasion of Outer Realm Sky Demons through a giant rift. As the battle spread across Tianyan Continent, Ren Xiaoyao fought the demons while cultivators rallied to defend the land.

• Ren Xiaoyao endured a clash between Guixu Sword Intent and the Flowing Cloud Sword Art as his sword embryo awakened and the Infinite Chaos Sword took shape.
• Ren Xiaoyao grasped the Infinite Chaos Sword, absorbed its ancient memories, and sensed the spiritual energy and demonic corruption across Tianyan Continent.
• Ren Xiaoyao flew into the sky and used the Infinite Chaos Sword to shatter the Heavenly Tribulation, while its energy formed a Demon Slaying Diagram with a missing corner.
• A thousand-li Space Crack opened, and Outer Realm Sky Demons poured onto Tianyan Continent under the command of a towering Leading Heavenly Demon.
• Ren Xiaoyao fought the Heavenly Demon Army with the Infinite Chaos Sword as more demons emerged and distant cultivators gathered to defend the continent.